Thursday, August 15, 2013

Sick... like actually sick.

Tuesday August 13.
Woke up in the middle of the night and was burning up. Turned my ac on high and fan on high and got a rag and got it wet. Went to school feeling very bad. The musical was only an hour and a half so I still had pretty much a full schedule. I tried to sleep during the musical. It was all in Korean. I was not able to... It was way too loud.
Got back to ecc for lunch time. I went to the doctors office during lunch. I was burning up and felt bad. The health care her is amazing. I walk in with no appointment. I do not have to fill out paper work (all of my medical information is tied to my alien registration card, so they just pull it up, also it is my insurance card). They take my temperature and it is 39.5 (103.1) and this was only 3 hours after taking Tylenol. I wait a few minutes and I go in and see the doctor. I then walk out, pay 3500 ($3.50) and head downstairs to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription. I pay 9500 ($9.50) for the pills and a gargling solution. I walk back to ecc. The entire process took less than 40 minutes.
I felt like crap but finished the day teaching. Louise told me I could go home... But if we have perfect teaching attendance we get a bonus.
I took a cab home and went to sleep.

Wednesday August 14
Waking up I felt worse than the day before. I still trucked through the day. I wore a shirt that showed showed sweat very prominently. I was sweating a ton cause I was still burning up. It was a gym day so during my first gym break I came home and changed to a shirt that didn't show sweat. Got back to school just as my kids were getting out of gym.
I told Rob and Ama that I was pulling out of the Busan trip. Disappointing because we were all looking forward to it. But I know I would have been miserable and it would not have been good for me.
I suffered through the rest of the day. I tried to keep my energy level high. Buy I was burning up, my throat and had were killing me and my entire body ached.
I came home and went to bed.

I know these two days do not talk about much in terms of students, thoughts, insights or anything else. My goal was surviving the days trying to have energy... Because of that... They were mostly a blur. I do know nothing big or out of the ordinary happened.

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